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ENVIRONMENT - February 2016

Feb 2016

Oct 13, 2017

Save the Vaquita Porpoise

An international team of experts has gathered in San Felipe, Mexico at the request of the Mexican government (SEMARNAT) and has begun a bold, compassionate plan known as VaquitaCPR to save the endangered vaquita porpoise from extinction. The vaquita porpoise, also known as the 'panda of the sea,' is the most endangered marine mammal in the world. Latest estimates by scientists who have been monitoring the vaquita for decades show there are fewer than 30 vaquitas left in the wild. The vaquita only lives in the upper Gulf of California.

Sep 28, 2017

Earth's Seventh Continent

In February this year, scientists unearthed Earth's seventh continent, which was named 'Zealandia'.
Zealandia, which is mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific, was once part of the Gondwana super-continent but broke away some 75 million-years-ago.
Researchers found significant new fossil discoveries that prove Zealandia was not always as deep beneath the waves as it is today.

Iceberg Breaks Off

In the second incident of its kind in two years, an iceberg over 250 square kilometres in size has broken off from an enormous Antarctic glacier.
The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest in West Antarctica and loses 45 billion tonnes of ice to the ocean each year.

Sep 27, 2017

Lost City of Alexander the Great Unearthed

Archaeologists have discovered a city in Iraq, believed to be lost for more than 2,000 years and thought to have been founded by Alexander the Great.
The archaeologists stumbled across the lost city while poring over declassified spy satellite photographs taken by the US government for military purposes in the 1960s but made public only in 1996.

Sep 26, 2017

World's Smallest Squirrel

Indonesian scientists have found the world's smallest squirrel (The Bormean pigmy squirrel or exilisciurus exilis) in the country's Borneo rain forest.
The species is 73 mm long and weighs about 17 grams.

Sep 21, 2017

Presence of Lethal Pollutants over Asia

A study jointly conducted by experts from the Indian Space Research Organisation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the US have confirmed the presence aerosol layer over the Asia region.
This layer contains particles of size less than 0.25 micron and are 90 per cent volatile.
The new finding has also confirmed the presence of nitrate, which as per experts is concerning as the rise in the presence of pollutants can eventually become lethal.

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